RCMP inspector defends police actions in shooting that killed man, hostage in 2019
The officer in charge when police in Surrey , B.C., killed a hostage taker and the woman he was holding says he believes he did everything possible to save her.
The RCMP emergency response team was in charge of the scene around the house after police received reports that Crosson was inside with a gun. Crosson called 911, White said, telling the operator to “tell those pigs to leave, leave my house or I’ll come out and shoot them.” White said he approved a plan to use explosives to enter through a door and window of a bedroom where they believed Crosson was holding McEwan.
“There’s nothing worse for a critical incident commander to hear what I heard that day. To go from some form of an elation, hearing that the victim had been rescued, and then receiving news a short time later from the hospital that that wasn’t the case that she was deceased,” he said.
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